Meanings
verbexplorate (third-person singular simple present explorates, present participle explorating, simple past and past participle explorated)
present singular third person explorates · participle present explorating · participle past explorated · past explorated
- obsoleteTo explore.
they will nevertheleſs exclude their horns, and therewith explorate their way as before
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
Origin
From Latin explorare, exploratum.
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